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Token Recuperad El Morro, Junta Patriotica Nacional

WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited September 9, 2024 6:32AM in World & Ancient Coins Forum
Token Recuperad El Morro, Junta Patriotica Nacional

Can anyone identify this token or tell what country it is from?

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Size about 25mm, brass?

Legends:
RECUPERAD EL MORRO / A B LEGUIA / 29 JULIO 1925
JUNTA / PATRIOTICA / NACIONAL

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  • Lima, Peru. War of the Pacific medal involving a territorial dispute between Tacna and Arica in which Calvin Coolidge was called upon to help arbitrate.

    Edited to add; size is approximately 19.1 mm.
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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you for the information.

    The token I have is 25mm.

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  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭
    From http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lrid=AN00019777:

    1925 medal. Tacna-Arica dispute. AU (NGC).

    4.03 grams, 19.10 mm. Plain edge. Morro of Arica, legends RECUPERAD EL MORRO, A. B. LEGUIA, 20 JULIO 1925 / legends JUNTA PATRIOTICA NACIONAL. Lustrous orange gold. Issued by the National League of Patriots in the hope of a more favorable settlement of the Arica border dispute with Chile, a dispute settled in 1929. ($750-1,250)

    Sold for $575.

    Is yours gold?

  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I believe the token is brass or a similar material.

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